This comprehensive guide by acclaimed realist painter Lorena Kloosterboer offers essential insights for acrylic painters at all levels. Beginning with the basics, it covers topics like acrylic types, reading paint labels, and using mediums and additives. It then explores tools and materials, including palettes, brushes, airbrushes, and studio preparation, ensuring readers are equipped for success.
The guide delves into foundational concepts like color theory, mixing, image transfer, and strategies for painting whites, grays, and blacks. Advanced techniques such as underpainting, glazing, impasto, sgraffito, and airbrushing are clearly explained, alongside approaches to depict various surfaces, from glass and fabric to landscapes and portraits.
Kloosterboer also addresses professional practices, including ethical behavior, exhibiting, social media, and documenting work. Appendices offer solutions to common problems, a glossary, recommended brands, and health tips.
With its extensive content and accessible layout, this guide is an invaluable resource for artists seeking expert instruction and creative inspiration.